Listening Quotes · Page 62

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

— James Cash Penney

I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts.

— Demetri Martin

Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young…

— Virgil Miller Newton

“If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.”

— Mavis Gallant

I can't listen to music while I'm doing something else. Well, unless I'm working out. But I, like, fall off the treadmill…

— Chris Thile

We think of music as this substance that flows - you turn on the tap, and there it is, streaming off your…

— Vijay Iyer

I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

— Gayle King

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence…

— Nick Hornby

In '68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I grew up listening to country music because that's what was playing in our house.

— Colter Wall

My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good…

— Phil Knight

Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't…

— Lupe Fiasco

I'm very thankful, hearing impairment or not, that I've brought listening into my life. I will never say that I'm a good…

— Gordon Hempton

All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids…

— Mike D

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much…

— Judd Apatow

I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.

— Mitch Hedberg

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

— Sathya Sai Baba

We got a rally a little while later - to talk to the rally because what I heard at that meeting [in…

— Hillary Clinton

Growing up, any time I would sit down with my grandfather to learn or talk about Carnatic music, he would bring up…

— Sid Sriram

Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up…

— Albert Ellis

I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who…

— Bill Mumy

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that…

— Steve Ballmer

When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the…

— Roger McGuinn

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

— Machine Gun Kelly

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to…

— Jill Scott

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits…

— Aaron Siskind

I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up…

— King Tuff

Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.

— J. D. Pardo

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

— Pat Metheny

Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the…

— DeLisha Milton-Jones

I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending…

— Stephen W. Thompson

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic…

— Daniel Dae Kim

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

— The Weeknd

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people…

— Margaret Cho

Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in…

— Bernie Sanders

I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't…

— Patty Griffin

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk…

— Greil Marcus